Figures. Obama Campaign Spends More Than it Takes In – Borrows From Evil Bankers

$5 trillion to national debt in a little over 3 years.
A new world record.
(Heritage)
Soon to be $6 trillion.

So is it really that surprising that the Obama Campaign overspent and is borrowing from Bank of America?The Washington Free Beacon reported:

Obama For America took out a $15 million loan from Bank of America last month, according to the campaign’s October monthly FEC report. The loan was incurred on September 4 and is due November 14, eight days after the election. OFA received an interest rate of 2.5% plus the current Libor rate.

Warren Buffett, Obama donor and namesake of the infamous “Buffett Rule,” invested $5 billion in Bank of America last year in an effort to help the ailing financial institution. Last month, two weeks after OFA took out the loan, Bank of America announced a plan that would lay off 16,000 workers by the end of the year.

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Patty

Americans are talking about a couple of hundred dollars here, just to get through from pay check to pay check. Hundred vs. Billions upon billions. From billions to Trillions has it made a difference to Obama?

Our kids will have it so bad unless someone gets a grip and fast on our children’s future. You just can spend money you don’t have. You must budget, yet, Obama has no budget, WE DO. Those of us paying for this irresponsible spending and now, Obama is threatening to Veto the Congress unless he gets his way, to tax the rich.

Obama is borrowing money that isn’t there and the rich are probing up this nation. And the rich are the ones who hire people. And they are getting sick of what they are seeing.

If they get shafted, so will America. And these taxes Obama is asking for on the rich will only help the debt for a day. WHAT IN THE HELL IS HE DOING TO US.

Romney/Ryan. PLEASE PEOPLE WAKE UP!!

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Dave in NYC commenting on misleading graphic in 5, 4, 3…

Please spare us the inane drivel, Dave! Admit that you have no idea why Jim keeps showing the graph, and then keep it to yourself. Thanking you in advance.

Patty

President Obama’s jokes can’t hide the truth

President Obama can make all the jokes he want about Mitt Romney’s “binders,” but Obama’s the one in the bind.

He’s tossed everything and the kitchen sink at Romney. He’s even thrown in Big Bird. Now he’s calling Mitt “sketchy” — a term women use to describe men who give them the willies.

But scare tactics and one-liners won’t work anymore. Romney’s impressive performance in the first debate, and mostly solid showing in the second, has rendered Obama’s attacks mostly ineffectual.

Even Obama’s perceived gift in this week’s debate — moderator Candy Crowley “fact-checking” Romney over his claim that the president never said the attacks in Libya were due to an “act of terror” — hasn’t had much impact. All the exchange did was ensure that the terror attacks would dominate the next few days of the campaign.

The final debate Monday night is on foreign policy — without questions from alleged “uncommitted” voters — so that should help Romney make his case that the White House has been weak in responding to the attacks.[……………]

WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS. I thought the dinner roast was great because of Romney and I realize this is for a great cause. But Obama may be better served in Hollywood. He is an actor and I want my money back, because his performance at dinner and as a leader, well stinks for a lack of a better word and boy do I have some dooseys.

dwd

Also, Obama’s a hypocrite. He’s Mr. Redistribution, Mr. Spread The Wealth… BUT Obama has refused to share revenue with the DNC, DSCC, and DCCC.

Per HotAir:
“How did the DNC get caught so short? Team Romney agreed to a significant amount of revenue sharing in late April when they partnered officially with the RNC. Team Obama, on the other hand, has refused to share revenue beyond what the DNC gets in large donations that are ineligible for the presidential campaign, and telling Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi that the campaign wouldn’t send cash to the DSCC and DCCC, either.”http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/20/rnc-up-83-million-dnc-taking-out-loans/

So Mr. Spread The Wealth told his fellow Democrats he’s not giving them any money (besides donations that are too big for him to accept anyway). He’s hoarding his money and refusing to share.

Hypocrite.

Kathteach

Gee – it was just yesterdary the the Washington Free Beacon reported the DNC owes The Amalgamated Bank $15 million now.

When I heard the DNC borrowed $* million in September from America’s LAbor Bank – Amalgamated Bank – I thought it sounded like a made up bank one would see in The Three Stooges,

So I went to Wikipedia and saw it’s been America’s Labor Bank since 1923.

Amalgamated Bank, often described as “America’s Labor Bank,” is a national entity, the majority of which is owned by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a politically active union with deep ties to the Democratic Party. The SEIU is also involved with the Democracy Alliance, a shadowy group of wealthy left-wing donors founded by billionaire investor George Soros.

The bank announced in an August press release that the DNC had “moved its primary banking relationship” to Amalgamated Bank, which would handle the committee’s “day-to-day banking needs.”

Oh well, how nice of them to lend the DNC all this money because it is sure to be profitable with the timely re-payments of principle and interest – of course, I jest here.

Another interesting link in the Wikipedia article for The Amalgamated Bank –

Kathteach

Another interesting link in the Wikipedia article for Amalgamated Bank:

In September 2011, two big investors bailed out Amalgamated Bank:

Mr. Burkle is a prominent donor to Democratic causes and has made Yucaipa a major investor in the grocery business, having bought stakes in Ralphs, now part of Kroger, and Pathmark, now part of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. He has developed a close relationship with the main grocery union, the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Mr. Ross is known for playing a forceful role in revamping ailing companies in struggling industries, most notably steel and coal. He worked closely with the United Steelworkers — and at times fought with it — in reorganizing numerous steel mills, including those he bought from the bankrupt Bethlehem Steel in 2003.

I had assumed that after the financial collapse the banks were more cautious to lend money to poor credit risks. Given Obama’s track record with the national deficit, his credit rating should be way under water. BOFA has already demonstrated very poor lending judgment and is looking to double down on their past performance.

I’ve been airing up my tires like crazy, trying to save a bit of money on gas, so that I can buy food for the family table. <— LIKE MOST AMERICANS, we struggle to make ends meet.

To hear that a politician is borrowing money to run the campaign is not only sickening, it is UN-American! He needs to take his Chicago Corruption, find a deserted island and become best friends with a volley ball.

The Socialist/Communist Party (formerly known as the ‘People’s Party aka Democrat Party) has been bankrupt in the idea bank for decades. Why else would they continue to puch failed policies and keep entire generations dependent upon The State?

dwd

#18 don’t fill your tires too much or else you will decrease your traction and increase the possibility of having an accident, which would cost much more than the small gas savings

#22 … thank you dwd 🙂 I was trying for sarcasm, LOL, but am glad you told me that because I did not know it and my mini van already has issues on wet/snow/ice roads! So this will help me this season, thanks!

vamoose

The way you run a campaign says something about the way you will run the government. For Dems that’s borrowing and spending.

Looking at the bottom chart, national debt looked fairly stable until the late seventies early eighties. I think Nixon took us off the gold standard in the mid seventies. Correlation ??

Look-Out

JOIN ROMNEY’S CAMPAIGN:

Essentially, they are asking for volunteers to work striker lists in heavily Republican areas. You can can volunteer to to work morning, afternoon/evening or all day. I will be working in the morning.

If you have a smart phone or IPad, they will be providing you with an election day app. It is essentially an electronic version of a striker list. You will sit in a polling place and mark voters off the list as they come in. That information will go directly to the Romney central command in your state. People will be working the phones and calling the Republican voters who have not showed up to the polls.

There are two other aspects to the app. One to report trouble, foul play, or voting problems. The other to give them anecdotal updates. For example, if a poll worker says this is the highest turnout they’ve seen in ten years, then you text that back to the Romney command center. All of this helps them focus their efforts where it is needed.

If you don’t have a smart phone or IPad, they will give you paper strike lists and a phone number to call in your reports at designated times.

The Romney campaign really has their act together. This is the best I’ve ever seen from a Republican candidate. All they need now are volunteers. Have you volunteered? If you live in a dark blue state they might give you a job making phone calls.

This is it. You’ve been complaining about Obama for four years. You’ve been living with/through Obama’s policies for four years. What are you going to do about it? Sit at home and comment on a right leaning website or go out and make a difference on election day?

Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha’s Vineyard.

Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority?

Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha’s Vineyard.

Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority?

Keep posting them and others, because they are the essence of this election.

Those of us that have been around awhile recall that the Clinton administration (yes, with the help of the Republican Congress) balanced our budget and mitigated our financial problems of the day. Our problem is not that the Democratic Party is generally more liberal than the Republican Party.

Our problem is that the Democratic Party has been hijacked from its Liberal ideals by a cabal of radical boneheads and (probably apolitical, simply opportunistic) corruptocrats and thieves.

The Democratic Party at the national level needs a thorough housecleaning. Please vote for a Republican President, but also remember Operation Counterweight.

And after that election, we need to investigate that “green” “investment” program and The Stimulus, among other things, possibly with the objective of recouping some of our public monies, but also to rearrange our rules to avoid such blatantly corrupt results. Also, we need to watch our elected representatives like hawks, so that they have little opportunity to “feed at the trough” like the Congress of the Reagan years.